Question

In a vegetable garden,1/4 of the plants are peppers. of the pepper plants ,1/3 are yellow peppers. what fraction of the plants are yellow peppers

Answer 1

Given that 1/4 of the plants in the garden are peppers, and 1/3 of the 1/4 pepper plants are yellow peppers, we could get the fraction of the yellow peppers by multiplying 1/4 by 1/3. And we get the answer 1/12. Therefore, 1/12 is the fraction of yellow peppers.